Literary Theory

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. While wine drunk millennia ago was the ...

The erotic and the intellectual come together to create a new kind of criticism in the lushly written work of Joanna Frueh. Addressing sexuality in...

Suicide and the Gothic is the first protracted study of how the act of self-destruction recurs and functions within one of the most enduring and po...

This volume presents a compelling mélange of chapters focusing on the myriad ways in which performance and gender are inextricably bound to identit...

Aristotle remains one of the most celebrated thinkers of all time in large part thanks to his incisive critical thinking skills. In Politics, which...

Best Books of 2019Scholarly Kitchen Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Ha...

A hugely entertaining and well-written tour of the links between math and literature. Harts lightness of touch and passion for both su...

Explores Shakespeare's representation of the failure of democracy in ancient RomeShakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic introduces Shakespe...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. From its origins in the late 19th cent...

An interdisciplinary account of the political importance of music in modernist literature A new methodology for analysing music in literature, inf...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The ocean comprises the largest object...

This book brings together essays based on papers presented at the 6th International Conference on Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts (...

Travelling a different road Once upon a time (Cornwall 1773-1799) there was a beautiful but poor princess who was loved by three gentlemen... ...

Beginning theory has been helping students navigate through the thickets of literary and cultural theory for over two decades. This new and expande...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. A 3-year-old asks her physician father...

What are America's best-loved novels? PBS will launch The Great American Read series with a 2-hour special in May 2018 revealing America's 100 best...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Sometime in the mid-1990s we began, of...